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Hoppe, C. M., Elbern, H. and Schwinger, J. (2014). A variational data assimilation system for soil-atmosphere flux estimates for the Community Land Model (CLM3.5). Geosci. Model Dev., 7 (3). S. 1025 - 1037. GOTTINGEN: COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH. ISSN 1991-9603

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Abstract

This paper presents the development and implementation of a spatio-temporal variational data assimilation system (4D-var) for the soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer model Community Land Model (CLM3.5), along with the development of the adjoint code for the core soil-atmosphere transfer scheme of energy and soil moisture. The purpose of this work is to obtain an improved estimation technique for the energy fluxes (sensible and latent heat fluxes) between the soil and the atmosphere. Optimal assessments of these fluxes are neither available from model simulations nor measurements alone, while a 4D-var data assimilation has the potential to combine both information sources by a Best Linear Unbiased Estimate (BLUE). The 4D-var method requires the development of the adjoint model of the CLM which is established in this work. The new data assimilation algorithm is able to assimilate soil temperature and soil moisture measurements for one-dimensional columns of the model grid. Numerical experiments were first used to test the algorithm under idealised conditions. It was found that the analysis delivers improved results whenever there is a dependence between the initial values and the assimilated quantity. Furthermore, soil temperature and soil moisture from in situ field measurements were assimilated. These calculations demonstrate the improved performance of flux estimates, whenever soil property parameters are available of sufficient quality. Misspecifications could also be identified by the performance of the variational scheme.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Hoppe, C. M. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Elbern, H. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Schwinger, J. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-452204
DOI:	10.5194/gmd-7-1025-2014
Journal or Publication Title:	Geosci. Model Dev.
Volume:	7
Number:	3
Page Range:	S. 1025 - 1037
Date:	2014
Publisher:	COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
Place of Publication:	GOTTINGEN
ISSN:	1991-9603
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SURFACE MODEL; MOISTURE; PARAMETERS; SCHEME; RUNOFF; SCALE Multiple languages Geosciences, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/45220